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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO 1 CORINTHIANS 12 In this chapter the apostle discourses concerning spiritual gifts, showing the author, nature, use, and excellency of them; compares the church to an human body, and in a beautiful manner sets forth the symmetry and subserviency of the members of it to one another, being set in different places, and having different gifts; and enumerates the several offices and...
John Gill
For to one is given by the Spirit,.... Now follows a distinct and particular enumeration of the operations of the Spirit, though not all of them, yet as many as the apostle thought necessary; and which are called the manifestation of him, and which most clearly show him to be the author of them to different persons; the word of wisdom: by which is meant "the manifold wisdom of God"; the wonderful...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter the apostle, I. Considers the case of spiritual gifts, which were very plentifully poured out on the Corinthian church. He considers their original, that they are from God; their variety and use, that they were all intended for one and the same general end, the advancement of Christianity and the church's edification, ver. 1-11. II. He illustrates this by an allusion to a human...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; He is prudent,—an experienced man—fit to lead the young, and the feeble, and those who are less instructed than he himself is. 1Co_12:8. To another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; He has a wide range of practical acquaintance with God’s Word; and though he may not be so judicious as the brother who was just mentioned, yet he is a man...